Needles



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1 INVENTOR. Percy Wafer BY M 7W vhwat ATTORNEYS United States Patent NEEDLES Percy Winter, Fort Lee, N. J.

Application June 15, 1953, Serial No. 361,675

1 Claim. (Cl. 223-102) This invention is an improvement in needles used in attaching the cord or string of a tag to a garment, a bolt of cloth, or to some other fabric, to show the price, quality or other information. The needle is of the type in which the eye is partially open at the end farthest from the point and communicates with a gap in the side of the needle, and in the rear of the eye. Thus by placing a loop of string on the needle and moving it into the gap, and then pulling the loop toward the point, it may be forced into the eye.

One object of the invention is so to shape the parts that the projection at the rear of the gap will not catch in the cloth during sewing, and a further object is to guide the loop into the gap in threading the needle.

As important features the portion of the needle having the eye is flattened without substantial change in crosssection, the outer surface of the needle on one side is inclined down toward the gap to facilitate directing the loop into the gap so that the liability of the loop slipping off the end of the needle when threading is reduced, and the portion at the other side of the gap has a projection inclined away from the gap so that it will not catch in the cloth.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. l is a side elevation on a greatly enlarged scale, showing a loop of string around the body of the needle.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation at right angles to the plane of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 22 of Fig. l.

The needle has the usual cylindrical shank provided with a point 11 at the front end. The rear end is flattened to produce, as clearly shown in Figures 1 and 2, a flattened portion 12, the transverse dimension of which is not substantially greater than the diameter of the cylindrical shank 10. This flattened portion is formed with an eye 13 communicating with a slot 19 open at the end farthest from the point and disposed between sections 14 and 15 defining a gap which communicates with the slot 19.

Outer edge 17 of section 15 extends towards the rear of the needle and slants downwardly terminating in a point 18. A projection of this outer edge 17 intersects 2,729,372 Patented Jan. 3, 1956 the top wall 16 of the gap so that this top wall 16 acts as a stop to guide the thread into the gap. As clearly shown in Figure l, the intermediate portion of slot 19 is narrower than the end portions thereof for the purposes hereinafter described.

By means of this novel construction a loop in the string may be held under light tension and caused to slide along the body of the needle, the section 15, down the inclined edge 17, and drop off at the point 18, but will be prevented from sliding beyond the upturned end or top wall 16 of the gap. By then pulling the loop in the opposite direction it may be forced through the slot 19 and into the eye. The slot 19 is sufficiently narrow that in normal sewing the tension on the string will not be suflicient to pull the thread out of the eye.

The flattening of the parts in which the eye is disposed gives these parts greater strength, but does not increase the size of the hole formed in the cloth. It merely changes the shape of the hole. Furthermore, this flattening allows the loop in the string to fit in behind the sides of the body of the needle, and makes it easier to pull the threaded needle through the hole.

Although the needle is especially adapted for the attaching of the string of a tag to a bolt of cloth or a garment, it may be used for other purposes.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A sewing needle having a cylindrical shank and a point at the front end thereof, the rear end being flattened to produce a flattened portion the transverse dimension of which is not substantially greater than the diameter of said cylindrical shank, said flattened portion having an eye through which the thread may be freely pulled endwise, a gap formed in a side edge of said flattened portion and in the rear of said eye, said flattened portion having an outer edge extending toward the rear of the needle leading into said gap and being inclined downwardly towards said gap to facilitate entry of the thread into said gap, a projection of the said outer edge intersecting the top wall of said gap so that said top wall acts as a stop to guide the thread into said gap and a passage formed in the flattened portion connecting said gap to the portion of the eye farthest from the point, the intermediate portion of said passage being narrower than the end portions thereof, whereby a loop of thread may be pulled into or out of said eye by exerting a greater pull on the said loop lengthwise of the needle than is normally employed in sewing.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 17,272 Garvey May 12, 1857 1,449,068 Snyder Mar. 20, 1923 FOREIGN PATENTS 358,749 Germany Aug. 6, 1921 

